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This paper addresses the experience of Indigenous peoples in the highlands of Guerrero, Mexico, as they organize to defend their territory against mining exploitation. This struggle evinces the different dimensions of territoriality that are mobilized in the process of anti-mining resistance, with particular emphasis on the collective structures of organization and government. My ethnographic findings and anthropological analysis problematize the concepts of common goods and dispossession, in which Indigenous territoriality and the processes territory defense against material and cultural dispossession are framed. El presente ensayo discute la experiencia de organización para la defensa del territorio de los pueblos indígenas en la Montaña de Guerrero frente a proyectos de explotación minera, exponiendo las distintas dimensiones de la territorialidad movilizadas en el proceso de resistencia antiminera, con particular énfasis en las estructuras colectivas de organización y gobierno. A partir de los hallazgos etnográficos y del análisis antropológico, se problematizan los conceptos de bienes comunes y despojo, en los cuales se enmarcan la territorialidad indígena y los procesos de defensa del territorio frente al despojo material y cultural. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In its report published in 2021, the UNESCO International Commission on the Futures of Education invited the international community to forge a "new social contract for education" in order to repair past injustices and build a more equitable and sustainable planet. This new social contract should involve all education stakeholders and be governed by the principle of education as a common good. However, neither the concept of the new social contract nor the principle of education as a common good appear to be clearly defined in the 2021 UNESCO report, and this results in a lack of political discussion regarding the relationship among the institutions that should govern the new social contract for education. This article discusses the extent to which the notion of education as a common good provides the political framing for such a new social contract. It recalls the theoretical background of this concept and identifies some key areas that may be relevant to the discussion on the governance arrangements required to forge a new social contract for education with a view to revisiting existing hierarchies of power and strengthening democratic processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The decline in the number of consecrated men and, above all, women in catholic church, will lead in the coming years to an increase of abandoned ecclesiastical real estate assets and opportunities for re-functionalization. While churches owned by the dioceses have been catalogued in Italy since 2000, monasteries and convents owned by religious communities are still unknown in number and therefore results in a politics of valorization on a “case by case” scenario. However, this approach will begin to highlight possible replicable strategies: the meaning and the history of buildings allows for a recovery of a collective memory and to develop reuse strategies of former convents as common goods. This approach is exemplified by the actions taken on the former Augustinian Monastery of Vicopelago in Lucca, where the use of space and also building management interprets the previous monastic presence, reiterating the proto-democratic ways in which the community made decisions.

In IR and beyond, there is considerable debate about the ways global governance, the transnationalisation of publics, and changes in communication technologies have affected the interplay between publics and global politics. This debate is characterised by disagreements about how to conceptualise publics in the global realm—and whether or not they exist in the first place. We seek to contribute to this debate by disentangling the various meanings associated with publics in order to get a better grasp of how publics shape and are shaped by global politics. We do so in two steps. First, we distinguish four different manifestations of publics: audiences, spheres, institutions, and public interests. Second, we identify four key dynamics that affect the evolution and interplay of these manifestations in global politics: the distinction between public and private, changes in communications technologies, the politics of transparency, and the need to legitimise global governance. These interrelated dynamics reshape the publicness of global politics while sustaining the plurality of the publics that partake in it.

In IR and beyond, there is considerable debate about the ways global governance, the transnationalisation of publics, and changes in communication technologies have affected the interplay between publics and global politics. This debate is characterised by disagreements about how to conceptualise publics in the global realm--and whether or not they exist in the first place. We seek to contribute to this debate by disentangling the various meanings associated with publics in order to get a better grasp of how publics shape and are shaped by global politics. We do so in two steps. First, we distinguish four different manifestations of publics: audiences, spheres, institutions, and public interests. Second, we identify four key dynamics that affect the evolution and interplay of these manifestations in global politics: the distinction between public and private, changes in communications technologies, the politics of transparency, and the need to legitimise global governance. These interrelated dynamics reshape the publicness of global politics while sustaining the plurality of the publics that partake in it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this study, we seek to examine the success factors of the classical common goods of various capitalist economies and to apply them to diverse platforms that appear as new common goods. Our research question is as follows: Are there any common success factors that can be applied to produce and use common goods across economic conditions? With the goal of identifying the grounded theory of common goods, the study employed the interview method using a semi-structured questionnaire. Furthermore, it conducted participatory observation and a literature review of case studies as well as a comparative study of 20 Korean commons and 20 Italy commons. According to cases of common goods in Jeju, South Korea, the coupling effects of several public policies could motivate the privatization of common goods. Second, an empty area in common goods consists of a high level of participation with democratization and a low level of common condition. High participation with democratization can avoid privatization and increase new open business models of common goods. Third, active open innovation with a high participation in democratization and expansion of new business models based on tacit knowledge of common goods could be the activating engine of regional innovation systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Catholic social teaching (CST) has shown little interest in structural and social forces that impact negatively on the dignity and flourishing of women. Such inattention diminishes CST's credibility and neglects its liberative potential. This article examines an area of structural violence against women, the social reality of prostitution, to illuminate the imperative to expand normative CST to address specific experiences of women. Given the inadequacy of the Catechism's treatment of prostitution as an area of personal moral failing, a reading which fails to understand how cultural and legislative structures bear down on women's freedom and agency, a task for CST emerges. When CST principles are brought into dialogue with empirical attention to women's experience of prostitution, the tradition stands in solidarity with those who inhabit an existential and social periphery. The article argues that CST perspectives should nudge the Catholic Church towards proposing an abolitionist ethic in relation to prostitution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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• Inward student mobility in China contributes simultaneously to individual goods and common goods at various scales (i.e., institutional, national, and global). • The relations between individual and common goods and between common goods at various scales are in general reciprocal, though there also exist tensions in this regard that need to be addressed. • Particularly, the participants hold views of the positive-sum relation between national and global common goods and a win-win situation of home and host countries of international students. • Chinese governments and universities demonstrate a strong commitment to (global) common goods. • The common good idea is a more useful and effective lens to study the development, practices, and ideas of inward student mobility in China, than the dominant neoliberal and nationalist approaches. This paper examines inward student mobility in China through the lens of common good, supplemented by cultural diplomacy, exploring its national and global impacts. Through document analysis of 15 policies and interviews with 15 university administrators and international students, this study demonstrates the multidimensional, participatory, interactive and beneficial features of inward student mobility, which yields a wide range of individual, institutional, national and global goods. Four global common goods are identified, including the cultivation of global citizens, expansion of global scientific networks, wider sharing of educational resources, increased cultural exchanges and deeper mutual understandings. National common goods, such as improved policies and practices, positive effects on economy, the expansion of countries' and cities' international influences, as well as talent resources and mutual cooperation networks, are also highlighted, with links to cultural diplomacy. However, challenges remain, including the gap between policy and practice, integration issues for international students, and the uneven distribution of resources and opportunities. Despite these, the study concludes that inward student mobility holds potential for reciprocal benefits at multiple levels, though further alignment between policies and practices is needed to enhance global common goods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a bibliometric review based on the scientific production on the management of common goods, in an interlocution with property rights with data from the Web of Science (WOS) in the period 1945 to 2020. The outcome returned 231 papers that, after applying filters and excluding the papers from 2020, was reduced to 146. Using CiteSpace software, the data were analyzed using 12 categories. The results show that the field is new, but with a growing number of interest, as it has been debated in the academic world and the research has echoed in the Goverment & Law category, which points to the need for a future study to deepen the research through an integrative review.

Digital technologies provide a convenient way for the public to participate in environmental governance. Therefore, by means of a two-stage evolutionary model, a new mechanism for promoting public cooperation is proposed to accomplish environmental collaborative governance. Interactive effects of government–enterprise environmental governance are firstly explored, which is the external atmosphere for public behaviour. Second, the evolutionary dynamics of public behaviour is analysed to reveal the internal mechanism of the emergence of public cooperation in environmental collaborative governance projects. Simulations reveal that the interaction of resource elements between government and enterprise is an important basis for environmental governance performance, and that governments can improve this as well as public cooperation by increasing the marginal governance propensity. Similarly, an increase in the government's fixed expenditure item of environmental governance can also significantly improve government–enterprise performance and public cooperation. And finally, the effect of government's marginal incentive propensity on public environmental governance is moderated by enterprises' marginal environmental governance propensity, so that simply increasing the government's marginal incentive propensity cannot improve the evolutionary stable state of public behaviour under the scenario where enterprises’ marginal environmental governance propensity is low.

Why do people often exhaust unregulated common (shared) natural resources but manage to preserve similar private resources? To answer this question, in this study we combine a neurobiological, economic and cognitive modeling approach. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging on 50 participants, we show that a sharp decrease of common and private resources is associated with deactivation of the ventral striatum, a brain region involved in the valuation of outcomes. Across individuals, when facing a common resource, ventral striatal activity is anticorrelated with resource preservation (less harvesting), whereas with private resources the opposite pattern is observed. This indicates that neural value signals distinctly modulate behavior in response to the depletion of common vs private resources. Computational modeling suggested that overharvesting of common resources was facilitated by the modulatory effect of social comparison on value signals. These results provide an explanation of people's tendency to over-exploit unregulated common natural resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Keywords: common goods; child development; cooperation; culture; motivation; bienes comunes; cooperación; cultura; desarrollo infantil; motivación; ; ; ; ; EN common goods child development cooperation culture motivation bienes comunes cooperación cultura desarrollo infantil motivación 1 10 10 08/01/22 20220801 NES 220801 INTRODUCTION Forests are vital to human and planetary health. GRAPH: Supplemental Materials Footnotes 1 B Article Impact Statement b : Extrinsic motivation increases donations for forests among youth in the United States, China, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Based on country-level statistics of life expectancy, health outcomes, and gross domestic product per capita (World Health Organization, 2019), DRC is comparatively more resource uncertain, and the United States is comparatively less resource uncertain; China is in between. Each group was then assigned to 1 of 3 motivation conditions; age and sex were balanced across conditions (distribution of groups across conditions in Appendix S2). [Extracted from the article]

In an apparently paradoxical or contradictory way, our new century seems to show two trends: on the one hand, an increasingly informal, disorganized, oftentimes violent spate of uprisings, and on the other hand, a growing exploitation of legal strategies. Given these developments, how do we rethink the relationship between social struggles and law? This article employs a casuistic approach in order to explore current modes of interconnections between law and society. It argues that law is that language that through the institution of norms gives shape to the world of social relations. Through this same language, law performs actions in this world that it institutes through its categories. This piece also proposes a technical understanding of the concept of legal mobilization and argues that the innovative use of legal technique (rather than a political grammar) and the institutions of social cooperation could be seen as elements that re-describe and re-signify legal mobilization.

The 2030 Agenda has influenced the design of public policies in Colombia and other countries in the region, but there are many gaps in the way a global policy can be interpreted and adapted to the territories. Thus, this article aims to critically evaluate the public policy of sustainability implemented in the Colombian Caribbean and to suggest contributions from an intercultural socioenvironmental justice perspective. For this purpose, the public policy of sustainability that orients the plans for the use of insular ecosystems in Cartagena de Indias has been examined and confronted with local evidence that shows significant changes in the forms of life and ecological degradation in multi-temporally analysed coverages. Methodologically, this research is based on three aspects: the theoretical discussion of the notions of sustainability and justice in public policies, spatial databases to analyse the transformation of landscapes and ethnographic work with Afro-descendant peoples to recognise their socioecological systems. We found that the public policy of territorial planning aligned with the 2030 Agenda nominally includes a rights approach, but management practices or governance structures do not consider the very high asymmetry in land tenure, the growing private and non-participatory regulation of coasts and the sea or the exclusion of Afro-descendant peoples who claim tenure and autonomy rights. Then, we propose integrated dimensions of sustainability that overcome the socioecological negativity observed and articulate criteria of intercultural justice in public, social and environmental policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In their defence of the school Jan Masschelein and Maarten Simons define it as a source of 'free time.' Drawing on Catherine Malabou's compelling reading of Heidegger in her The Heidegger Change, I aim to provide a strong ontological justification for the claims made on behalf of the school concerning free time, common goods, and renewing (changing) the world: the school provides free time; it transforms knowledge and skills into common goods; and it has the potential to give everyone the time and space to renew the world. The paper enquires into what 'free time as non‐productive time,' 'common goods,' and 'changing the world' mean on an ontological register, and why therefore the school is so precious and warrants our utmost care in the face of its conservative and progressive critics alike. I discern a single underlying notion, the notion of essence as mutability, constituting the link connecting free time, common goods, and renewal of the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How societies can cope with flood risk along coasts and riverbanks is a critical theoretical and empirical problem – particularly in the wake of anthropogenic climate change and the increased severity of floods. An example of this challenge is the growing costs of publicly-funded flood defense in Britain and popular outcries during the regular occasions that the British government fails to protect property and land during heavy rains. Traditional approaches to institutional analysis suggest that flood management is either a public good that only the government is competent to provide or a private good to which individual landowners are ultimately responsible for supplying. We argue that an important cause of failure in flood management is mismatched property rights. This is where the scale of natural events and resources fail to align with the scale of human activities, responsibility and ownership. Moreover, the spatial dimensions of floods mean that their management is often appropriately conceptualized as a common pool resource problem. As a result, commons institutions as conceptualized and observed by Elinor Ostrom are likely to be major contributors to effective flood management. What governance process should decide the size and scope of these institutions? We argue that bottom-up responses to problems of mismatched property rights are facilitated within larger societies that are characterized by market processes. Moreover, the wider presence of price signals delivers to local communities essential knowledge about the cost of maintaining private property and the relative scarcity of the communal goods. We discuss how our theoretical positions align with experience in Britain and what the implications of our theoretical approach are for facilitating the development of better institutions.

Complementary currencies are usually seen as a by-product of collective movements for social change or as an institutional tool for local development: they are an outcome of collective action, not the origin of collective mobilisation. Empirical research on the Sardex complementary currency, though, suggests that money may support the emergence of collective action. Traditional economic theory considers any collective benefits provided by the economic system as the secondary effects of individual entrepreneurs seeking to maximise their profits. Entrepreneurs belonging to the Sardex network, though, do associate the use of the Sardex currency with direct collective benefits. This means they consider their business activities to be a form of collective action for promoting the common good of Sardinia's socio-economic development. Using the Sardex currency sets this collective action in motion: some Sardex members also work to expand the Sardex network without any expectation of economic gain.

The Municipality of Nonantola (Modena, Italy) has hosted for almost 1,000 years the agrarian ‘Partecipanza’, a shared area of ​​760 hectares today, result of a donation from the Abbey dating back to 1058. Through very complex historical events, this common good, different from a ‘civic use’ or a collective property, is still used by a part of the population where each “participant”, with an allotment every 12 years, assumes the responsibility for the economic use of a part attributed to him with periodic rotation. From the medieval era, in which its use was partly farming partly ‘woody’, since the nineteenth century it passed to a mainly agricultural use, but with the rise of the postindustrial era it experienced an ‘ecological turning point’ not only with the forest rebirth, but also with enhancement and fruition projects in the direction of an ‘environmental education’ which now affects the entire population, including immigrants. Relations with the Municipality are very close, and allude to innovative forms of self-government and widespread socio-territorial responsibility that make Nonantola an exemplary case of participatory democracy.

This article proposes to characterize the forms of conflict that oppose, particularly since 2018 in France, citizen and activist collectives to projects for the location of industrial activities in the economic sectors of digital platforms and leisure complexes. We situate these projects within the framework of private and public territorial development strategies conceived according to the paradigm of the creative economy. We have identified fifteen contemporary conflicts on the national territory related to construction projects of logistic sites for e-commerce or leisure complexes presented as having a cultural and creative dimension. We articulated a socio semiotic analysis of a corpus of press articles and institutional communiqués related to these conflicts with the realization of about thirty interviews with the local actors concerned. We will first show that these conflicts consist of an opposition between different perceptions and conceptions of spaces, at different scales; as such, they are part of a local geopolitics for the control of territories. Beyond local singularities, these phenomena have in common that they confront a set of practices established within public and private institutions with other paradigms of socio-economic development of the territories, claimed by the opponents of these projects. These conflicts concern both values and beliefs that opponents consider “outdated” or incompatible with the major contemporary societal issues (environment, social inequalities, taxation) and the very methods of managing public decisions. To a logic of the Public/Private contract, often covered by secrecy and which tends to invisibilize local socio-economic specificities for the benefit of a global harmonization, is thus opposed a process of construction of common goods, which rests on the articulation of multiple spatial scales. After having characterized the forms of organization and action of the actors concerned by these conflicts, we propose a model of these multiscalar politicization phenomena based on locally anchored contestations.

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The governance of shared resources through collective actions to prevent "the tragedy of the commons" has long been a controversial topic in management studies. Hampered by a lack of formal organisational structures, small locally-governed commons are usually managed through informal networks and, hence, largely studied in this context. However, Italy's formalised network contracts initiative provides a unique and relatively rare opportunity to study how the business-led collective action of a formal meta-organisation influences the use of commons. Using a mixed-methods qualitative approach, this paper reveals how particular organisational features, especially collaborative and social learning, can play a critical role in driving formal meta-organisations towards positive outcomes in three progressive stages: commons protection, commons stewardship, and commons governance. The analysis is framed by two different streams of literature – meta-organisation theory and sustainability science – with implications for the theory and praxis of both. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present the scientific results of the call for papers in SEPS titled 'Decision-Making Models for Common Goods in Environmental, Health, and Logistics Contexts.' As guest editors in Socio-economic Planning Sciences (SEPS), we describe the domain of our academic initiative and present the collected papers. Interestingly, our collection includes papers employing various methodologies such as multi-criteria decision making, game theory, operations research, microeconomics, computational models and insurance mathematics. We received more than fifty submissions from Asia, Europe and America. However, only thirteen papers were accepted for publication in SEPS. This demonstrates the extensive investigation of the problem of common goods and the ongoing academic debate surrounding it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Collective financing, in the form of either public domestic revenues or pooled donor funding, at the country level is necessary to finance common goods for health, which are population-based functions or interventions that contribute to health and have the characteristics of public goods. Financing of common goods for health is an important part of policy efforts to move towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC). This paper builds from country experiences and budget documents to provide an evidence-based argument about how government and donor financing can be reorganized to enable more efficient delivery of common goods for health. Issues related to fragmentation of financing—within the health sector, across sectors, and across levels of government—emerge as key constraints. Effectively addressing fragmentation issues requires: (i) pooling funding and consolidating governance structures to repackage functions across programs; (ii) aligning budgets with efficient delivery strategies to enable intersectoral approaches and related accountability structures; and (iii) coordinating and incentivizing investments across levels of government. This policy response is both technical in nature and also highly political as it requires realigning budgets and organizational structures.

Common goods such as air, water, climate, and other resources shared by all humanity are under increasing pressure from growing population and advancing globalization of the world economy. Safeguarding these resources is generally considered a government responsibility, as common goods are vulnerable to market failure. However, governments do not always fulfill this role, and face many challenges in doing so. This observation—that governments only sometimes address common goods problems—informs the central question of this paper: when do governments act in support of common goods? We structure our inquiry using a framework derived from three theories of agenda setting, emphasizing problem perception, the role of actors and collective action patterns, strategies and policies, and catalyzing circumstances. We used a poll of experts to identify important common goods for health: disease surveillance, environmental protection, and accountability. We then chose four historical cases for analysis: the establishment of the Epidemic Intelligence Service in the US, transport planning in London, road safety in Argentina, and air quality control in urban India. Our analysis of the collective evidence of these cases suggests that decisions to advance government action on common goods require a concisely articulated problem, a well-defined strategy for addressing the problem, and leadership backed by at least a few important groups willing to cooperate. Our cases reveal a variety of collective action patterns, suggesting that there are many routes to success. We consider that the timing of an intervention in support of common goods depends on favorable circumstances, which can include a catalyzing event but does not necessarily require one.

The 2030 Agenda has influenced the design of public policies in Colombia and other countries in the region, but there are many gaps in the way a global policy can be interpreted and adapted to the territories. Thus, this article aims to critically evaluate the public policy of sustainability implemented in the Colombian Caribbean and to suggest contributions from an intercultural socioenvironmental justice perspective. For this purpose, the public policy of sustainability that orients the plans for the use of insular ecosystems in Cartagena de Indias has been examined and confronted with local evidence that shows significant changes in the forms of life and ecological degradation in multi-temporally analysed coverages. Methodologically, this research is based on three aspects: the theoretical discussion of the notions of sustainability and justice in public policies, spatial databases to analyse the transformation of landscapes and ethnographic work with Afro-descendant peoples to recognise their socioecological systems. We found that the public policy of territorial planning aligned with the 2030 Agenda nominally includes a rights approach, but management practices or governance structures do not consider the very high asymmetry in land tenure, the growing private and non-participatory regulation of coasts and the sea or the exclusion of Afro-descendant peoples who claim tenure and autonomy rights. Then, we propose integrated dimensions of sustainability that overcome the socioecological negativity observed and articulate criteria of intercultural justice in public, social and environmental policies.

ABSTRACT While fastidious microbes can be abundant and ubiquitous in their natural communities, many fail to grow axenically in laboratories due to auxotrophies or other dependencies. To overcome auxotrophies, these microbes rely on their surrounding cohort. A cohort may consist of kin (ecotypes) or more distantly related organisms (community) with the cooperation being reciprocal or nonreciprocal and expensive (Black Queen hypothesis) or costless (by-product). These metabolic partnerships (whether at single species population or community level) enable dominance by and coexistence of these lineages in nature. Here we examine the relevance of these cooperation models to explain the abundance and ubiquity of the dominant fastidious bacterioplankton of a dimictic mesotrophic freshwater lake. Using both culture-dependent (dilution mixed cultures) and culture-independent (small subunit [SSU] rRNA gene time series and environmental metagenomics) methods, we independently identified the primary cohorts of actinobacterial genera “Candidatus Planktophila” (acI-A) and “Candidatus Nanopelagicus” (acI-B) and the proteobacterial genus “Candidatus Fonsibacter” (LD12). While “Ca. Planktophila” and “Ca. Fonsibacter” had no correlation in their natural habitat, they have the potential to be complementary in laboratory settings. We also investigated the bifunctional catalase-peroxidase enzyme KatG (a common good which “Ca. Planktophila” is dependent upon) and its most likely providers in the lake. Further, we found that while ecotype and community cooperation combined may explain “Ca. Planktophila” population abundance, the success of “Ca. Nanopelagicus” and “Ca. Fonsibacter” is better explained as a community by-product. Ecotype differentiation of “Ca. Fonsibacter” as a means of escaping predation was supported but not for overcoming auxotrophies. IMPORTANCE This study examines evolutionary and ecological relationships of three of the most ubiquitous and abundant freshwater bacterial genera: “Ca. Planktophila” (acI-A), “Ca. Nanopelagicus” (acI-B), and “Ca. Fonsibacter” (LD12). Due to high abundance, these genera might have a significant influence on nutrient cycling in freshwaters worldwide, and this study adds a layer of understanding to how seemingly competing clades of bacteria can coexist by having different cooperation strategies. Our synthesis ties together network and ecological theory with empirical evidence and lays out a framework for how the functioning of populations within complex microbial communities can be studied.

Giftedness for common goods. Pedagogical reflection on the WISC model of Sternberg. Giftedness represents an emergent topics in the educational and psychological field in Italy. The present paper will focus on the WICS model of Sternberg, an alternative model of giftedness that goes beyond a traditional conception of the construct. Traditional models describe Giftedness as a feature related mainly to high intelligence. According to the WICS Model the main goal of a Gifted person is to pursue the common Good. The paper will describe each component of the model and will bring some educational reflections.

Cooperation, participation, trust: Restorative Circles in governing common goods. In order to avoid the so-called tragedy of commons, Ostrom proposed an alternative approach to the classical state control vs. privatization dichotomy in governing common goods; it is based on the idea that appropriators can co-operate and safeguard common goods without the control of an external institution. In this perspective, understanding which are the conditions that promote cooperation instead of individualistic behaviors is necessary. Among other variables, trust in other group members is very important in cooperative strategies; when referring to groups involved in decision-making processes, the swift trust is often mentioned: it is a form of trust occurring in temporary structures, which is mostly based on cognitive components and stereotypical expectations, it is very quick but also very fragile. In this paper, the method of Restorative Circles is presented; it is a method of group facilitating, used in USA restorative justice and in neighborhood decision-making groups. It is proposed to use Restorative Circles in the governance of common goods, in order to promote a form of trust quicker than ordinary trust, but stronger than swift trust, because it is based on a deeper knowing of other group members. Restorative Circles could be effective in promoting participation, trust among participants and between participants and local institutions, rendering commons’ governance easier and more efficient

Objective: The research aims to verify to what extent the Viva São Pelegrino Project, in Caxias do Sul - RS, is in line with the ideals of the right to the city and the urban common. Discussion: The first topic addresses the concept of the right to the city is pointed out, normative reception and relationship with the meanings of the common. Afterwards, the urban common is studied, identifying the city as common and the city commons. Finally, categories are chosen that summarize the right to the city and the urban common, which will serve to analyze the conformity of the Viva São Pelegrino Project. Methodology: The analytical approach method was used, with bibliographic procedure and case study. Results: Among the seven categories, five were verified, and the shortcomings are in the choice of location, for being a space with infrastructure, and in the insufficient approach to the topic of segregation and property. Social / management contributions: It was verified, when observing the Project under analysis, that the right to the city and the urban commons, normally approached theoretically, can be guidelines for urban management and social mobilization in cities, with concrete results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The point of departure for this study is the understanding of customer relationship management (CRM) as a set of technological solutions key for efficient business management, the benefits of which, highlighted by previous works, are presented and defined here as crucial for entrepreneurial success. Of particular interest for this purpose are the existing studies on sustainability, which provide a viable research model to assess and validate the potential effect of each CRM component (sales, marketing, and services) on the three dimensions of sustainability (economic, environmental, and social). Upon confirmation of our hypotheses, the subsequent validation of such model should bring a better understanding of the way in which CRM-related benefits may increase the positive impact of its components on each dimension of sustainability. CRM can hence be considered a sort of Green IT, oriented toward digital transformation and sustainable business model innovation. Indeed, this research model may be the basis for a more specific methodology to measure the impact and benefits of applying CRM, understood, as we will contend, both in terms of sustainable business models and innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the wake of scandals at Cambridge Analytica/Facebook and Sinclair Broadcasting Group, the ethical implications of a digital economy for thought, word and deed come to the fore in political economy. Such questions require media ecological consideration for grounding ethics in the communicative domain between self, other and world. This theoretical exploration parses the historical intersections of studies in media ecology and political economy in an effort to understand both the medium of exchange and the ethical principle or techno-economic paradigm inherent to that medium. Media ecology is necessary for cultivating the ethical ground of political economy and reflectively engaging the implications of a hypermodern techno-economic paradigm for everyday communicative life. Further, media ecological constraints will be understood as perpetuating particular political and economic conditions in terms of the sensorial equilibrium of a noetic economy and the psychodynamics of human culture. After analysing the ethical demands of changing media ecologies, implications for the fields of political economy and media ecology in this hypermodern moment are presented. This exploration is offered as an initial foray into understanding the productive tensions of these two particular fields of intellectual inquiry and providing an adequate response to the questions of digital economics in this current historical moment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to analyze the development of neo-extractive industries in South America since the start of the current century and the role which it has played in emerging economies and domestic policies for promoting economic growth in each country. Using a qualitative methodology, it analyses, on the one hand, the growing influence of China in the region, its role in the advance of neoextractive technologies and the economic, social and environmental consequences of that model; and, on the other, the increasing number of socio-environmental conflicts caused by “neo-extractivismo” in Latin America, with an emphasis on those in Córdoba (Argentina) and the social movements which oppose those technologies.

As part of the reflections about urban regeneration, the advanced international disciplinary debate contains new important references concerning endogenous issues of the disciplinary approaches, as well as issues related to the global change of the environmental, socio-economic and cultural context. The Master Plan for Rome (2008) has started the experimentation of an overall regeneration strategy. In this framework, the Programmi integrati stand out thanks to public-private partnership and the complex approach to the construction of the public city. The limited experimentation of these tools, however, opens the way to other innovative practices for resilient regeneration of “common goods”.

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An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses several articles published within issue on topics including importance of common goods for health (CGH), and Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

Common goods such as air, water, climate, and other resources shared by all humanity are under increasing pressure from growing population and advancing globalization of the world economy. Safeguarding these resources is generally considered a government responsibility, as common goods are vulnerable to market failure. However, governments do not always fulfill this role, and face many challenges in doing so. This observation—that governments only sometimes address common goods problems—informs the central question of this paper: when do governments act in support of common goods? We structure our inquiry using a framework derived from three theories of agenda setting, emphasizing problem perception, the role of actors and collective action patterns, strategies and policies, and catalyzing circumstances. We used a poll of experts to identify important common goods for health: disease surveillance, environmental protection, and accountability. We then chose four historical cases for analysis: the establishment of the Epidemic Intelligence Service in the US, transport planning in London, road safety in Argentina, and air quality control in urban India. Our analysis of the collective evidence of these cases suggests that decisions to advance government action on common goods require a concisely articulated problem, a well-defined strategy for addressing the problem, and leadership backed by at least a few important groups willing to cooperate. Our cases reveal a variety of collective action patterns, suggesting that there are many routes to success. We consider that the timing of an intervention in support of common goods depends on favorable circumstances, which can include a catalyzing event but does not necessarily require one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Collective financing, in the form of either public domestic revenues or pooled donor funding, at the country level is necessary to finance common goods for health, which are population-based functions or interventions that contribute to health and have the characteristics of public goods. Financing of common goods for health is an important part of policy efforts to move towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC). This paper builds from country experiences and budget documents to provide an evidence-based argument about how government and donor financing can be reorganized to enable more efficient delivery of common goods for health. Issues related to fragmentation of financing—within the health sector, across sectors, and across levels of government—emerge as key constraints. Effectively addressing fragmentation issues requires: (i) pooling funding and consolidating governance structures to repackage functions across programs; (ii) aligning budgets with efficient delivery strategies to enable intersectoral approaches and related accountability structures; and (iii) coordinating and incentivizing investments across levels of government. This policy response is both technical in nature and also highly political as it requires realigning budgets and organizational structures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews a series of studies conducted in Mexico related to public health expenditure. Topics include the lack of health insured people as found by the study; creation of a health insurance scheme, the System for Social Protection in Health (SSPH) by the National Health Law; and the availability of facilities by SSPH to the children such as vaccination for diphtheria and tetanus.

We consider investment decisions in a discrete time, two-stage real option game where firms move sequentially, in the context of a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) problem. The value of the option depends on the market structure which we assume to be either a monopoly or a Bertrand differentiated duopoly. We show that, in an equilibrium where no firm invests in the first period, a government intervention, in form of a subsidy, can improve the welfare level. • We consider a discrete 2-periods, 2-stages version of a real option game. • The profits of the firms are subject to some stochastic shock which follows a simple binomial process. • We show how some form of government intervention can be welfare improving in equilibria where no firms invest in the first period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]